As some of you may know, I am in training for the Baltimore Marathon this year, October 13, 2012. This has been an exciting year, and the marathon will be run one week before we celebrate my son’s first birthday. This is my first 26.2, and I’ll be wearing a WorldRelief jersey and standing with…
why are we asking the wrong questions about education?!?
[I’m warning you now, this is probably the longest blog post I’ve ever written, but my passion on the issue requires it…] The Chicago Teachers’ strike is compelling news to me for a number of reasons. [For example, why did the union not give parents and students more lead time that a strike might be…
nurture your first love
So, someone asked me this week while I was in a meeting, “Do you get the runner’s high?” I replied, I’m not quite sure what that is. I can say, however, that running has captured my competitive instinct (at least what’s left of it), and my drive to push myself to new levels has taken…
don’t be ridiculous… don’t waste your life
I was listening to TD Jakes this morning with my wife while preparing for my trip to Australia. He was preaching from the story of David and Goliath, specifically the part of the account when Eliab, David’s brother, rebukes him for urging the men to fight against the undefeated Philistine champion. Although I thought I’d…
Majestic in Holiness
Who among the gods is like you, lord? Who is like you— majestic in holiness, awesome in glory, working wonders? This passage is found in Ex 15:11, NIV.
We have to make those who are victims, and who perpetrate, sexual violence visible. Let us pray for them, and all those who are working diligently to do God’s work of caring for this community.
#CENS #participatorysensing demonstration
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Think-alouds shed light on how students grapple with content (
This week, I received an email from Faculty Focus with the above title. I recommend you check it out for yourself. Here’s a short excerpt that might provide modest motivation for learning how to apply this technique: Even if you didn’t want to use it in a rigorous study design, the idea of listening to…
Are you two-faced like Hezekiah? Ask God for courage to confront your heart…
While struggling to read through Isaiah before the year ends (don’t think I’ll make it), I have come to one of its historical sections that painfully reminds me of the dissonance in my own heart and life. In Chapters 37-39, we find something in Hezekiah that we see in ourselves all too well: a prideful…
Who is the student’s most appropriate audience?
Admittedly, I am having trouble developing a title for this post. Broadly speaking, the idea behind my thoughts is that most of my education has been done under a paradigm characterized by two things: I am a consumer of information. I am a producer of information only for the professor. Now, obviously most professors and…